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Hmm, I'm tempted to get one and hopefully make it look as douchey as possible. Name aside the look of it throws it into the maybe pile for me if it is a medium and not a heavy.

Heavier than heavy- the Awesome is an 80 ton assault mech. Slow as paint, and bristling with long range cannons.

Well that puts it with the Atlas for me, like the look of it probably won't enjoy the slow pace of it.

To pass the time until the release, perhaps we could wishlist what mechs we want to see in the game?
I personally would love to see the Starslayer in the game, if it was in the game, it would be my mech of choice, as I love its comination of firepower, manouverability and protection.

I just want to see a Raven.

A wishlist, eh?

Light:
Firestarter (...who doesn't like fire?)
Hammer (long range support)
Raptor (first IS omni)
Raven (just plain awesome)
Wolfhound (always liked it)

Medium:
Stormcrow/Ryoken (one of the best all around 'mechs IMO)
Wraith (speed, and some surprising hitting power)
Griffin (always held a spot in my heart)

Heavy:
Black Knight (love it)
Grand Dragon
Warhammer
Marauder
Summoner/Thor
Rifleman

Assault:
Banshee
Battlemaster
Pillager
Devastator

Really it'd probably be easier to list the 'Mechs that I don't want to appear in game. Really a short list: theTimber Wolf / Mad Cat. That is only because the moment it's available, that is the ONLY thing you'll see.

You know what we should try if we can?

Rifleman Spam. Done in Grey Knight colors.

Light:
Valkyrie
Panther

Medium:
Assassin
Enforcer
Griffin
Shadow Hawk

Heavy:
Crusader
Jagermech
Archer

Assault:
Zeus
Battlemaster
Banshee

Light:
Summoner

Medium:
Summoner

Heavy:
Summoner

Assault:
Summoner

Anvildude wrote:You know what we should try if we can?

Rifleman Spam. Done in Grey Knight colors.

This.

Krellnus wrote:

Anvildude wrote:You know what we should try if we can?

Rifleman Spam. Done in Grey Knight colors.

This.

Why? Because of the dreadnort?

Rifle-spam won't work even with the pilot system they plan.

Mostly because light autocannons are really damn weak. It might work against a team of light 'mechs, but any assault 'mechs will just wreck a rifleman spam team.

Melissia wrote:Mostly because light autocannons are really damn weak. It might work against a team of light 'mechs, but any assault 'mechs will just wreck a rifleman spam team.

If only that were the case with 40K's Rifleman spam...

Well, it might depend on what we're packing. We can take a mixture of lasers, Autocannons, PPCs, hell if we're lucky we may be able to finangle a missile launcher or two onto our mechs.

infinite_array wrote:Well, it might depend on what we're packing. We can take a mixture of lasers, Autocannons, PPCs, hell if we're lucky we may be able to finangle a missile launcher or two onto our mechs.

I can't remember if the Rifleman chassis has enough space to support a gauss rifle, if so, we should take 1 per lance to act as a sniper, imo anyway.

You could take an awesome in every lance to act as a sniper. Would that work?

Krellnus wrote:

infinite_array wrote:Well, it might depend on what we're packing. We can take a mixture of lasers, Autocannons, PPCs, hell if we're lucky we may be able to finangle a missile launcher or two onto our mechs.

I can't remember if the Rifleman chassis has enough space to support a gauss rifle, if so, we should take 1 per lance to act as a sniper, imo anyway.

The Warhammer would fill that role better, it is 10 tons heavier. Both, however, suffer from cardboard armor syndrome, they carry less armor than similar weight mechs. It's a trade off for heavier weaponry. A speedy mech with average weapons can take either one down with a back shot or two.

Ledabot wrote:You could take an awesome in every lance to act as a sniper. Would that work?

Dibs on this roll. Though I'll probably switch out the arm PPC for an autocannon.

helgrenze wrote:

Krellnus wrote:

infinite_array wrote:Well, it might depend on what we're packing. We can take a mixture of lasers, Autocannons, PPCs, hell if we're lucky we may be able to finangle a missile launcher or two onto our mechs.

I can't remember if the Rifleman chassis has enough space to support a gauss rifle, if so, we should take 1 per lance to act as a sniper, imo anyway.

The Warhammer would fill that role better, it is 10 tons heavier. Both, however, suffer from cardboard armor syndrome, they carry less armor than similar weight mechs. It's a trade off for heavier weaponry. A speedy mech with average weapons can take either one down with a back shot or two.

Very true. But if there's a point in the match where our Warhammer or Rifleman is on the front line, then there's a pretty good chance something's gone wrong.

I suppose the Warhammer could defend itself a little better, since it's larger (assumed) assortment of weaponry.

helgrenze wrote:

Krellnus wrote:

infinite_array wrote:Well, it might depend on what we're packing. We can take a mixture of lasers, Autocannons, PPCs, hell if we're lucky we may be able to finangle a missile launcher or two onto our mechs.

I can't remember if the Rifleman chassis has enough space to support a gauss rifle, if so, we should take 1 per lance to act as a sniper, imo anyway.

The Warhammer would fill that role better, it is 10 tons heavier. Both, however, suffer from cardboard armor syndrome, they carry less armor than similar weight mechs. It's a trade off for heavier weaponry. A speedy mech with average weapons can take either one down with a back shot or two.

Very true. But if there's a point in the match where our Warhammer or Rifleman is on the front line, then there's a pretty good chance something's gone wrong.

I suppose the Warhammer could defend itself a little better, since it's larger (assumed) assortment of weaponry.

I recommend having a hunchback as the brawler to defend the riflemen, actually.

Could we get 4 arms on any of the Mechs? I kinda want to make a Deffdredd.

Krellnus wrote:
I always thought the Warhammer was designed to be on the front line, knocking the teeth out of anything in its line of sight?

Oddly enough, no. It's more of a mobile weapons platform - quick for a heavy class mech, bristling with firepower, but as was said before, it has cardboard armor. It's sort of a 'glass cannon'.

Melissia wrote:I recommend having a hunchback as the brawler to defend the riflemen, actually.

I dunno, hunchbacks aren't really manoverable, do you think they will be able to react fast enough against multiple enemies, I mean I guess anything fast enough to close in will be dropped by the AC-20 if it gets caught, but I haven't played a mechwarrior game in ages, so what would I know?

infinite_aray wrote:Oddly enough, no. It's more of a mobile weapons platform - quick for a heavy class mech, bristling with firepower, but as was said before, it has cardboard armor. It's sort of a 'glass cannon'.

Huh, ok fair enough, guess you learn something new everyday.

Hunchbacks are mediums designed for urban brawling. They're not fast, but they ARE maneuverable.


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Anvildude wrote:Could we get 4 arms on any of the Mechs? I kinda want to make a Deffdredd.

I doubt quad mechs will make it in. But even they merely have four legs, instad of four arms and two legs.

J-mechs have the same armor issues as the Rifleman and Warhammer, but are better on heat and sustaining fire. Very good at playing sniper and can fire all weapons without heat problems

But they also still have the same problem with heavily armored 'mechs.

Honestly people put too much stock in light autocannons.

Melissia wrote:But they also still have the same problem with heavily armored 'mechs.

Honestly people put too much stock in light autocannons.

I agree. Too much faith in Autocannons....

Not enough in GAUSS RIFLES!

That is a problem with a lot of the "Heavies", too little armor, not enough damage potential or both.

I guess it's because they're in that odd zone between Mediums/Lights and Assaults - you go one way, you get more speed and less firepower, and the other way has less speed and more firepower.